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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Natural Resources Revenue
[Docket No. ONRR–2011–0009; DS63644000
DR2000000.CH7000 189D0102R2; OMB
Control Number 1012–0008]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Collection of Monies
Due the Federal Government
Office of the Secretary, Office
of Natural Resources Revenue, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of extension.
AGENCY:

To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), the Office of Natural Resources
Revenue (ONRR), is proposing to renew
an information collection with revisions
under 30 CFR part 1218.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before March 8,
2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit your
written comments on this information
collection request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget’s Desk Officer
for the Department of the Interior by
email to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov; or via facsimile to (202)
395–5806. Please also mail a copy of
your comments to Mr. Armand Southall,
Regulatory Specialist, ONRR, P.O. Box
25165, MS 64400, Denver, Colorado
80225–0165, or by email to
[email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number ‘‘1012–
0008’’ in the subject line of your
comments.
SUMMARY:

For
questions on technical issues, contact
Mr. Hans Meingast, Financial Services/
Financial Management, ONRR,
telephone (303) 231–3382, or email to
[email protected]. For other
questions, contact Mr. Armand Southall,
telephone (303) 231–3221, or email to
[email protected]. You may
also contact Mr. Southall to obtain
copies, at no cost, of (1) the ICR, (2) any
associated form(s), and (3) the
regulations that require us to collect the
information. You may review the ICR at
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain and select ‘‘Information
Collection Review,’’ then select
‘‘Department of the Interior’’ in the
drop-down box under ‘‘Currently Under
Review.’’
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the
general public and other Federal
agencies with an opportunity to
comment on new, proposed, revised,

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and continuing collections of
information. This helps us assess the
impact of our information collection
requirements and minimize the public’s
reporting burden. It also helps the
public understand our information
collection requirements and provide the
requested data in the desired format.
We published a notice, with a 60-day
public comment period soliciting
comments on this collection of
information, in the Federal Register on
July 24, 2017 (82 FR 34333). We
received the following comments from
companies regarding the published 60day Federal Register notice.
Public Commenter #1 stated the
following:
In the San Juan basin where we pay
royalties, our recoupment process takes
around 2 hours per month, or around 20
hours per year. A colleague who reports
royalties in the Williston Basin, however,
spends much more time and can have over
a day’s worth of work associated with
tracking and reporting recoupments during
the month. The colleague would estimate
closer to 70 hours per year.

Public Commenter #2 also stated the
following:
I’m sorry. I know I agreed to do this survey,
but I find the request takes more time to read
than I would like to spend on the entire
survey. We have had some unexpected
projects come up and I cannot spare the time.

Public Commenter #3 stated the
following:
I forwarded your request to CLR legal, for
their review; I read the FRN then passed it
to our company’s lawyers. I have no
comments.

Public Commenter #4 also stated the
following:
I talked to my Supervisor this morning.
Cimarex as a company doesn’t comment on
items like this. Cimarex in the past, through
COPAS/PASO has taken part in discussions
on items like this. Cimarex will follow
COPAS/PASO’s jointly discussed approach.
We are not aware of any discussions taking
place within COPAS/PASO regarding ICR
1012–0008. Hope this resolves your question.

Once again, we are soliciting
comments on this ICR that is described
below. We are especially interested in
public comment addressing the
following issues: (1) Is the collection
necessary to the proper functions of
ONRR; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of the burden
accurate; (4) how might ONRR enhance
the quality, usefulness, and clarity of
the information collected; and (5) how
might ONRR minimize the burden of
this collection on the respondents,
including through the use of
information technology.

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Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. Before including your
Personally Identifiable Information (PII),
such as your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information, in your
comment(s), you should be aware that
your entire comment—including PII—
may be made available to the public at
any time. While you may ask us, in your
comment, to withhold your PII from
public view, we cannot guarantee that
we will be able to do so.
Abstract: The Secretary of the U.S.
Department of the Interior is responsible
for collecting royalties from lessees who
produce minerals from leased Federal
and Indian lands and the Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS). Under various
laws, the Secretary’s responsibility is to
manage mineral resources production
on Federal and Indian lands and the
OCS, collect the royalties and other
mineral revenues due, and distribute the
funds collected. ONRR performs the
royalty management functions and
assists the Secretary in carrying out the
Department’s responsibility. We have
posted those laws pertaining to mineral
leases on Federal and Indian lands and
the OCS at http://www.onrr.gov/Laws_
R_D/PubLaws/default.htm.
I. General Information
Minerals produced from Federal and
Indian leases vary greatly in the nature
of occurrence, production, and
processing methods. When a company
or an individual enters into a lease to
explore, develop, produce, and dispose
of minerals from Federal or Indian
lands, that company or individual
agrees to pay the lessor a share in an
amount or value of production from the
leased lands. The lessee is required to
report various kinds of information to
the lessor relative to the disposition of
the minerals. Such information is
generally available within the records of
the lessee or others involved in
developing, transporting, processing,
purchasing, or selling such minerals.
The information collected includes data
necessary to ensure that production is
accurately valued and that royalties are
appropriately paid.
II. Information Collections
This ICR covers unique reporting
circumstances, including (1) cross-lease
netting in calculation of late-payment
interest; (2) designation of a designee;
and (3) Tribal permission for
recoupment on Indian oil and gas
leases.

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A. Cross-Lease Netting in Calculation of
Late-Payment Interest
Regulations at § 1218.54 require
ONRR to assess interest on unpaid or
underpaid amounts. ONRR distributes
these interest revenues to States, Indian
Tribes, and the U.S. Treasury, based on
financial lease distribution information.
Current regulations at § 1218.42 provide
that an overpayment on a lease or leases
may be offset against an underpayment
on a different lease or leases to
determine the net payment subject to
interest when certain conditions are
met. This process is called cross-lease
netting. Lessees must demonstrate that
cross-lease netting applies by submitting
production reports, pipeline allocation
reports, or other similar documentary
evidence. This information is necessary
in order for ONRR to determine the
correct amount of interest that the lessee
owes and to ensure that lessees are
neither undercharged nor overcharged
interest.
B. Designation of Designee
Owners of operating rights are
primarily liable for Federal oil and gas
royalties and other revenue payments,
while owners of record title are
secondarily liable (though both are
referred to as ‘‘lessees’’) (see 30 U.S.C.
1712(a) and 30 CFR 1218.52). It is
common, however, for a payor—rather
than a lessee—to make these payments.
When a payor makes payments on
behalf of a lessee, RSFA section 6(g)
requires that the lessee designate the

payor as its designee and notify ONRR
of this arrangement in writing. We
designed form ONRR–4425, Designation
Form for Royalty Payment
Responsibility, to request all the
information necessary for lessees to
comply with these RSFA requirements
when choosing to designate an agent to
pay for them. We require this
information to ensure ONRR orders and
demands are addressed to and served on
the proper parties.
C. Tribal Permission for Recoupment on
Indian Oil and Gas Leases
In order to recoup overpayments
made on Tribal Indian oil and gas
leases, lessees must comply with
regulations at 30 CFR 1218.53(a), which
limits recoupments to the amount of
royalties or other revenues owed on the
same lease that month. However,
regulations at 30 CFR 1218.53(b) allow
lessees, with written permission from
the Tribe, to recoup overpayments on
one lease against a different lease for
which the Tribe is the lessor. The lessee
must provide ONRR with a copy of the
Tribe’s written permission.
III. OMB Approval
We are requesting OMB’s approval to
continue to collect this information. Not
collecting this information may result in
the loss of royalty payments due Federal
and Indian lessors. Also, it may deprive
lessees of the ability to minimize or
avoid interest due when they have
offsetting under-reporting and over-

reporting of production. And it would
deprive lessees of a right of recoupment
of overpayments authorized by Tribes.
Proprietary information submitted is
protected, and there are no questions of
a sensitive nature included in this
information collection.
IV. Data
Title: Collection of Monies Due the
Federal Government, 30 CFR part 1218.
OMB Control Number: 1012–0008.
Bureau Form Number: ONRR–4425.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Businesses.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 31 Federal and Indian
lessees.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 31
Estimated Completion Time per
Response: 4.87 hours.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 151 hours.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain a Benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour
Burden Cost: None.
We have not included in our
estimates certain requirements
performed in the normal course of
business that are considered usual and
customary. The following table shows
the estimated burden hours by CFR
section and paragraph:

RESPONDENTS’ ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS
Citation 30 CFR
part 1218

Reporting and recordkeeping requirement

Average
number of
annual
responses

Hour burden

Annual
burden hours

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Cross-lease netting in calculation of late-payment interest.
(b) Royalties attributed to production from a lease or
leases which should have been attributed to production
from a different lease or leases may be offset . . . if
. . . the payor submits production reports, pipeline allocation reports, or other similar documentary evidence
pertaining to the specific production involved which
verifies the correct production information. . . . (c) If
ONRR assesses late-payment interest and the payor asserts that some or all of the interest is not owed . . . the
burden is on the payor to demonstrate that the exception
applies. . . .

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RESPONDENTS’ ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS—Continued
Citation 30 CFR
part 1218

Reporting and recordkeeping requirement

Average
number of
annual
responses

Hour burden

Annual
burden hours

Subpart B—Oil and Gas, General—How does a lessee designate a Designee?
1218.52(a), (c), and (d) ............

How does a lessee designate a Designee? (a) If you are a
lessee under 30 U.S.C. 1701(7), and you want to designate a person to make all or part of the payments due
under a lease on your behalf . . . you must notify ONRR
. . . in writing of such designation. . . . (c) If you want
to terminate a designation . . . you must provide [the
following] to ONRR in writing. . . . (d) ONRR may require you to provide notice when there is a change in the
percentage of your record title or operating rights ownership.
ONRR currently uses Form ONRR–4425, Designation
Form for Royalty Payment Responsibility, to collect this
information.

1

1

1

Subpart B—Oil and Gas, General—Recoupment of overpayments on Indian mineral leases.
1218.53(b) ................................

Recoupment of overpayments on Indian mineral leases. (b)
With written permission authorized by tribal statute or
resolution, a payor may recoup an overpayment against
royalties or other revenues owed . . . under other
leases. . . . A copy of the tribe’s written permission
must be furnished to ONRR. . . .

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Total Burden .....................

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An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
Control Number.
ONRR Information Collection
Clearance Officer: Armand Southall
(303) 231–3221.
Authority: The authorities for this action
are the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et. seq.).
Gregory J. Gould,
Director for Office of Natural Resources
Revenue.
[FR Doc. 2018–02299 Filed 2–5–18; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4335–30–P

INTERNATIONAL TRADE
COMMISSION
Notice of Receipt of Complaint;
Solicitation of Comments Relating to
the Public Interest
U.S. International Trade
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:

Notice is hereby given that
the U.S. International Trade
Commission has received a complaint
entitled Certain Fuel Pump Assemblies
Having Vapor Separators and
Components Thereof, DN 3292; the
Commission is soliciting comments on

SUMMARY:

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any public interest issues raised by the
complaint or complainant’s filing
pursuant to the Commission’s Rules of
Practice and Procedure.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa
R. Barton, Secretary to the Commission,
U.S. International Trade Commission,
500 E Street SW, Washington, DC
20436, telephone (202) 205–2000. The
public version of the complaint can be
accessed on the Commission’s
Electronic Document Information
System (EDIS) at https://edis.usitc.gov,
and will be available for inspection
during official business hours (8:45 a.m.
to 5:15 p.m.) in the Office of the
Secretary, U.S. International Trade
Commission, 500 E Street SW,
Washington, DC 20436, telephone (202)
205–2000.
General information concerning the
Commission may also be obtained by
accessing its internet server at United
States International Trade Commission
(USITC) at https://www.usitc.gov. The
public record for this investigation may
be viewed on the Commission’s
Electronic Document Information
System (EDIS) at https://edis.usitc.gov.
Hearing-impaired persons are advised
that information on this matter can be
obtained by contacting the
Commission’s TDD terminal on (202)
205–1810.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
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and a submission pursuant to § 210.8(b)
of the Commission’s Rules of Practice
and Procedure filed on behalf of Carter
Fuel Systems, LLC on January 31, 2018.
The complaint alleges violations of
section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19
U.S.C. 1337) in the importation into the
United States, the sale for importation,
and the sale within the United States
after importation of certain fuel pump
assemblies having vapor separators and
components thereof. The complaint
names as respondent: Wenzhou Jushang
(JS) Performance Parts Co. Ltd. of China.
The complainant requests that the
Commission issue a limited exclusion
order, a cease and desist order and
impose a bond upon respondents’
alleged infringing articles during the 60day Presidential review period pursuant
to 19 U.S.C. 1337(j).
Proposed respondents, other
interested parties, and members of the
public are invited to file comments, not
to exceed five (5) pages in length,
inclusive of attachments, on any public
interest issues raised by the complaint
or § 210.8(b) filing. Comments should
address whether issuance of the relief
specifically requested by the
complainant in this investigation would
affect the public health and welfare in
the United States, competitive
conditions in the United States
economy, the production of like or
directly competitive articles in the

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